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I will journey to abysses of blackstill waters

i will wade into their warm embrace

i will immerse myself in gentle fingers

that softly sway my everdense corporeal form

this summer sea, crowded with small jellies

like gooseberries, dangling their tendrils

wash in against my legs and belly,

 stinging like small bitter fires

I will see a star, late rising

as waves lift my legs, to hang

evanescent, suspended in flowy matter

skin blazing under medusazoac lances

under blackcloaked sky,

glittering as if punctured by diamond needles

this light i hold has finally been extinguished

thin openings emerge over ricepaper encasements

and bursting with clouds of crimson, i am freed

 through burgundy slits, spirits clamor and escape

through unending waters, this sanguine dowry

curls and billows across pulsing epochs

a fluid thrumming, ebbing, flowing, in harmonic synchrony

all is one, all is one, all is one, within, without

my vision sinks to murky cumulations

submersed in wat'ry arms of adoring seas

i am born anew